Mother Wore Tights
Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang.
Plot
In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college. Instead, she takes a job performing with a traveling vaudeville troupe, where she meets and falls in love with singer-dancer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey).
Awards
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| author | Lamar Trotti |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score |
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Walter Lang |
| editor | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
| keywords | boarding school giving birth new school oakland california on tour robert arthur san francisco school friend show business travel vaudeville vaudeville troupe young man |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score |
| producer | Lamar Trotti |
| theme | high school musical |